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For my final project, I would like to create something that has unique coding to it, people have to interact with it, and it looks aesthetically pleasing, like this project.
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Assignment week 6
I propose to control my blow dryer. For my final project I was thinking about doing something like this that would be able to turn on something that blows and can movie things through the air from a distance. I wanted to attach a balloon filled with confetti and hopefully it will blow up the balloon until it pops and confetti flies everywhere. I wanted to use a motion detector that would keep blowing up the balloon if people keep moving, but that wasn't possible.
I will have to use a dawn to dusk sensor at Home Depot in order to plug the blow dryer into. I am going to do this because it's safe, and trying to work with a blow dryer plug and socket would be too dangerous. So when someone shines a light in the sensor, then the blow dryer should turn on. Maybe I could make a game out of it how the people have to keep the flashlight in the sensor and race to see who could blow up the balloon faster. But I will have to see how the sensor works.
Final
The main point of my artwork is to make things look aesthetically pleasing and at the same time, creative and interesting. I have been thinking of many different project ideas and I have been researching online for a good idea. I decided not to research and find out what other people are doing, but instead take the time to think about an aesthetically pleasing project. I came up with the idea that I believe will look professional and be interesting.
I would like to make a project that will display the results of a real survey. It was hard to find an interesting survey that would combine everyone’s interest and I decided to use one that involves murder. I found a survey that displays the results of how others want to murder someone. People could choose from 7 categories of how they want to kill someone. My project will be a board saying “How do others want to kill you?” and the 7 categories listed below. I will put LED’s next to the category that each person has chosen, displaying one person at a time. This way, people will see what other people are thinking, involving everybody’s interest.
This project will not be interactive; it is strictly for look-see and educational purposes. I will code into the arduinio the result of the survey and display the results randomly, one person at a time. Each person’s results will be shown by a LED lighting up. http://itpwiki.nyuroberttwomey.educom/showsindex.php?title=Image:How_it_works.jpg http:/winter2007/mood-basewiki.roberttwomey.com/index.php?title=Image:How_it_looks.jpg